Dr. Jonine Nazar-Biesman
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first heard Jul 2022
last heard Jul 2022
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If there's one tidbit of information I could encourage with parents, it's just to really don't shy away from that communication piece with a person who you're bringing your child to see, whether it's a therapist or your assessor, have that open communication.
If you're not happy with something or you have a question about something, don't feel like you have to defer to the professional.
Be honest and be open to having the process be collaborative so that you can be the good self advocate for your child that you are and were meant to be.
Debbie.
Thanks so much for having me.
So I'm a pediatric and adolescent young adult neuropsychologist, which means that the training goes beyond just typical clinical psychology into a couple of years of postdoc understanding brain development.
Neural circuitry, how things wire up, and the why I went into that specialty is just truly fascination about the brain and how it governs and operates everything, and truly understanding things from a brain perspective, how behavior is shaped by what the brain is doing.
So I think the favorite part of my day is just sitting with students.
students, chatting with them, getting to know them, taking them in, really trying to capture and appreciate their individual differences during testing, with that's what I'm doing, really.
Enjoying the process of discovery, working with kids almost as a a detective to figure out the best things about their brains and how they work and how they learn and think and organize information.
Probably the least favorite is all the documentation that follows after that assessment process, but
I've also always taken pride and felt it's really important in doing assessment to be a practitioner, to also be a clinician, to treat, to intervene, to
Understand what it takes to help a student arrive from point A to point B and construct interventions and strategies that work particularly for them.
So I always carry my own therapy caseload.
I'm out in the community, I'll do school observations, home observations, work to coach parents, bring in family systems and conduct family.
sessions.
So when I am writing recommendations in my reports, they're really applicable to real life, not just sitting in a testing bubble and spewing out some numbers and this is how your child compares based on the average, but really taking into account the whole child in the big picture.
Sometimes parents will be given from a school or a referring party maybe, you know, three to four different names, maybe up to ten.
Like I've had calls before where a parent may say, Yes, the school just gave me, Bridges Academy just gave me two pages of people.
How do I go through this?
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